This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.
Sarah MangusoThose who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.
Sarah MangusoPerhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.
Sarah MangusoI don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.
Sarah Manguso